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JayPro
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And this, friends, is where I find myself rather conflicted vis a vis how to perceive what I see whenever G-Force is activated on my screen.
I appreciate the analogy you make, Andy, between a final GF iteration and the published edition of a movie or novel.

On the other hand, what someone like me would most likely be after is a broad showcase of contributors' talents both great and small, a visual forum where we can all see via color, shape and form the bounds to which we, through individual expression, can take this thing.
I for one appreciate maximal variation, even if it means--from time to time, mind you--doing an oh-so-delicate Riverdance around the farthest fringes of what might be considered a fellow user's "taste threshold".

Plus, let's not forget those who use the app as a trippy take on the common "Family-Trip-To-Wherever-Slideshow", where colors, waves, and pixel flows serve as a nifty complement an otherwise humdrum reason for friends and/or family to gather in the den. So that's another interpretation of it. I could go on; but the point I really want to make follows.

I have authored quite a few effects that never made it to any "final cut" version of this program; yet I still use them; and each one of them has been tested to Kingdom Come for maximum reactivity to a wide variety of entertainment genres. Through it all, though, I have (IIRC) never called Andy out, either privately or publicly, for not choosing this or that one that *I* personally would have added given my druthers.

(EDIT: The previous statement is not meant to be personally critical of anyone with sensitive feelings on this matter; and I offer apology to whoever sees it thus)

My personal copy of GFG contains *hundreds* of effects from years past, both "official" and not, some of which Andy might look at but for one-tenth of a second before sprinting into the bathroom and tossing breakfast into a porcelain bowl. But again, it redounds IMO to how *I*, as a "variety geek", see the program unfolding before my eyes...in the privacy of my own room...and in the inner-chambers of my heart, mind and soul. And no one is beholden to see it as I do. *No one*.

Hell, I'm thinking of downloading a second copy of GF Gold, leaving it *as is* and gazing deeply into Andy's *specific/intended* idea of the look and feel of GF. Maybe I could learn something new?

At this point, I simply say let's just wait till the release of this Extras archive and see what color the wind is by then.
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